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“Liars are always most disposed to swear.
[It., A giurar presti i mentitor son sempre.]”
Vittorio Alfieri Quotes Source: Virginia (II, 3)
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“But that he wrought so high the specious tale,
As manifested plainly 'twas a lie.
[Lat., Se non volea pulir sua scusa tanto,
Che la facesse di menzogna rea.]”
Ludovico Ariosto Quotes Source: Orlando Furioso (XVIII, 84)
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“And none speaks false, when there in none to hear.”
James Beattie Quotes Source: The Minstrel (bk. II, st. 24)
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“I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted:
I said in my haste, All men are liars.”
Bible Quotes Source: Psalms (ch. CXVI, v. 11)
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“Resolved to die in the last dyke of prevarication.”
Edmund Burke Quotes Source: Impeachment of Warren Hastings
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“Quoth Hudibras, I smell a rat;
Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 821)
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“I tell him, if a clergyman, he lies!
If captains the remark, or critics, make,
Why they lie also--under a mistake.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Don Juan
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“And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but
The truth in masquerade.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto XI, st. 37)
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“You lie--under a mistake--
For this is the most civil sort of lie
That can be given to a man's face, I now
Say what I think.”
Pedro Calderon de la Barca Quotes Source: El Magico Prodigioso (sc. 1), translation by Shelley
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“So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not
to trust himself on the narrow edge.
[Lat., Ita enim finitima sunt falsa veris ut in praecipitem locum
non debeat se sapiens committere.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: Academici (IV, 21)
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“A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.
[Lat., Mendaci homini ne verum quidem dicenti credere solemus.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: De Divinatione (II, 71)
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“A good memory is needed once we have lied.
[Fr., Il faut bonne memoire apres qu'on a menti.]”
Pierre Corneille Quotes Source: Le Menteur (IV, 5)
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“A liar is always lavish of oaths.
[Fr., Un menteur est toujours prodigue de serments.]”
Pierre Corneille Quotes Source: Le Menteur (IV, 5)
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“Some truth there was, but dash'd and brew'd with lies,
To please the fools, and puzzle all the wise.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: Absalom and Achitophel
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“When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie.
[Ger., Wenn ich irre kann es jeder bemerken; wenn ich luge,
nicht.]”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes Source: Spruche in Prosa (III)
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“As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united
voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to
falsehood.”
Oliver Goldsmith Quotes Source: Vicar of Wakefield (vol. II, ch. VIII)
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“Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie;
A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.”
George Herbert Quotes Source: Church Porch
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“Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies.”
George Herbert Quotes Source: Jacula Prudentum
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“Shew me a lyer, and I'le shew thee a theefe.
[Show me a liar, and I'll show thee a thief.]”
George Herbert Quotes Source: Jacula Prudentum
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“Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits the all.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes Source: Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (VI)
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“Who dares think one thing, and another tell,
My heart detests him as the gates of hell.”
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") Quotes Source: The Iliad (bk. IX, l. 412), (Pope's translation)
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“Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies;
And sure he will; for wisdom never lies.”
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") Quotes Source: The Odyssey (bk. III, l. 25), (Pope's translation)
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“For my part getting up seems not so easy
By half as lying.”
Thomas Hood Quotes Source: Morning Meditations
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“Splendidly mendacious.
[Lat., Splendide mendax.]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes Source: Carmina (III, 11, 35)
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“Round numbers are always false.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes Source: Johnsoniana--Apothegms, Sentiment, etc., From Hawkin's Collective Addition
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